Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 7th Dzogchen Ponlop, Rinpoche is an abbot of Dzogchen Monastery, president of Nalandabodhi, the founder of Nitartha Institute, a leading Tibetan Buddhist scholar, and a meditation master. He is one of the highest t lkus in the Nyingma lineage and an accomplished Karma Kagyu lineage holder. The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche was born in 1965 at Rumtek Monastery (Dharma Chakra Center) in Sikkim, India. His birth was prophesied by the supreme head of the Kagyu lineage, the Sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa, to Ponlop Rinpoche's parents, Dhamch Yongdu, the General Secretary of the Sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa, and his wife, Lekshey Drolma. Upon his birth, he was recognized by the Sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa as the seventh in the line of Dzogchen Ponlop incarnations and was formally enthroned as The Seventh Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche at Rumtek Monastery in 1968.show more